Rick Kelo on America's History and Automation

Many people misunderstand the role of automation in improving our daily lives.  When you're trying to decide a question like, "will the new ordering kiosk at McDonald's create unemployment for cashiers?" try taking a bigger picture look.

In 1776 when our nation was founded over 85% of the population was employed in agriculture.  What was the result of that?  We could not have any dentists, engineers, or software programmers.  In the centuries since then we've found new ways to feed ourselves with less than 3% of the population working agriculture.  The result has not been 82% unemployment! The result is that resources (labor among them) are freed to move into more valued and higher paying areas that previously could not exist.

Rick Kelo, Chicago tax recruiter

As a tax recruiter, and the owner of TaxScout, Inc, Rick Kelo has seen first hand the benefit of automation in freeing us from lower value work so we can focus on higher value work.